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The world’s top 60 teams will battle for a final 8 spot at the Austin Major in June.
With the April 7 Valve Regional Standings update, we now know which teams have qualified for June’s BLAST Austin Major. Teams have received invites to three different stages of the big tournament depending on their performance throughout the start of 2025.
Here’s a look at the invites to theBLAST Austin Majorand a quick breakdown of the event’s format, which has changed from previous CS2 Majors!
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CS2 teams attending the BLAST Austin Major
Stage 3 Invites
The following teams have been invited directly to Stage 3 of the Austin Major. These include some of the world’s best squads, who earn essentially a two-week break as they await the challengers from stages one and two:
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Stage 2 Invites
The following teams have earned an invite to Stage 2 of the Austin Major. These squads just missed the Stage 3 cutoff, meaning they’ll prepare for the eight squads from Stage 1 in the second Swiss stage:
Stage 1 MRQ teams
Stage 1 of the Austin Major will contain 16 teams, but the exact teams making it to the first Swiss stage haven’t been determined yet. These teams will come from the Major Regional Qualifiers, or MRQs, for each of the main CS2 regions.
We’ve broken down the MRQ attendees across each region in the table below, and will begin to knock them out as they are eliminated from their respective qualifiers.
Europe receives six slots for Stage 1, while the Americas receive six divided between North and South America. Asia also receives four slots, with each Asian sub-region receiving one. China receives a second slot as Rare Atom (Chinese squad) was the highest-placing non-Stage 3 invite at the time invites were issued.
That’s all for now! Tune in from April 14 to see who gets to nab the last spots at the Austin Major, which kicks off in early June.
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